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October 2011 BLUEPRINT 15
New Heads of House take office
Balliol College
Professor Sir
Drummond Bone
has taken office as
Master of Balliol
College. Sir Drummond
was a Snell
Exhibitioner at Balliol
from 1968 to 1972,
after graduating from
Glasgow University. His previous posts
include Professor of English Literature
and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the
University of Glasgow, Principal of Royal
Holloway and Bedford New College,
Vice-Chancellor of the University of
Liverpool, and President of Universities UK.
He is an expert on Byron and President
of the Scottish Byron Society. A Fellow
of the Royal Society of Arts, he has
served as a member of the CBI Science
and Innovation committee and chaired
the Northern Way’s industry and
innovation group. In 2008 he was elected
a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
and knighted for services to higher
education and the regeneration of
north-west England.
Worcester College
Professor
Jonathan Bate is
the new Provost of
Worcester College. He
read English Literature
at St Catharine’s
College, Cambridge,
and after his
doctorate became
a fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He was
appointed King Alfred Professor of English
Literature at the University of Liverpool in
1990 and Professor of Shakespeare and
Renaissance Literature at the University
of Warwick in 2003.
Well known as a critic, biographer and
broadcaster, Professor Bate has held
visiting posts at Harvard, Yale and UCLA.
His many books include a biography of
Shakespeare, Soul of the Age, and he wrote
The Man from Stratford, a one-man play
for Simon Callow. He is on the Board
of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His biography of the poet John Clare
won the Hawthornden Prize and the
James Tait Black Prize. A Fellow of both
the British Academy and the Royal Society
of Literature, he was made CBE in the
Queen’s 80th Birthday Honours.
Brasenose College
Professor Alan
Bowman, formerly
Oxford’s Camden
Professor of Ancient
History, has become
Principal of Brasenose,
following a year as
Acting Principal while
his predecessor,
Professor Roger Cashmore, was on
research leave.
He read Greats at The Queen’s College,
Oxford, and took his doctorate at the University
of Toronto. Previous posts include
Assistant Professor of Classics at Rutgers
(the State University of New Jersey),
Lecturer in Ancient History at the University
of Manchester, and Official Student of
Christ Church and University Lecturer in
Ancient History, University of Oxford. He
became Camden Professor of Ancient
History and a fellow of Brasenose in 2002.
His research interests include Roman
Egypt and Vindolanda and he was elected
a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.
Mansfield College
Baroness Helena
Kennedy, a leading
barrister and expert
in human rights law,
civil liberties and
constitutional issues,
is the new Principal
of Mansfield College.
She attended the Inns
of Court School of Law and was called to
the Bar in 1972, being appointed Queen’s
Counsel in 1991. She is a member of the
House of Lords and chairs Justice, the
British arm of the International
Commission of Jurists.
Baroness Kennedy is a member of the
Doughty Street Chambers and has acted
in many high-profile cases including the
Brighton Bombing and the Guildford Four
appeal. She is currently on the defence
team for Wikileaks founder Julian
Assange. She chaired the British Council
1998–2004 and the Human Genetics
Commission 1998–2006, and has been
a judge of several literary prizes including
the Man Booker Prize. She was the first
Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University
and was for 10 years President of the
School of Oriental and African Studies.
Helena Kennedy has received many
honours from British universities and
learned institutions as well as from the
governments of France and Italy. She
was this year given the Royal Medal by
the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Hertford College
Will Hutton has
taken office as
Principal of Hertford
College. An economist
and leading public
intellectual whose
career began in the
City, Mr Hutton is
best known for his
work in journalism. He was editor, then
editor-in-chief, at The Observerr
from
1996 to 2000, when he joined The Work
Foundation. He has conducted independent
reviews into Britain’s education and training
compared to EU countries, pay in the public
sector, accountability in the NHS, and the
creative industries. He currently chairs
the Ownership Commission, established
by the outgoing Labour government,
which is due to report shortly.
He is a governor of the London
School of Economics and the Ditchley
Foundation, and has received honorary
degrees from many universities including
Bristol, East Anglia, Kingston and
Glasgow Caledonian.
St Cross College
Sir Mark Jones,
formerly Director
of the Victoria and
Albert Museum is
now Master of St
Cross. He read PPE at
Worcester College,
Oxford, and gained an
MA at the Courtauld
Institute of Art. He joined the British
Museum in 1974 as Assistant Keeper
of Coins and Medals, and headed that department
from 1990. In 1992 he became
Director of the National Museums of Scotland,
where he oversaw the creation of the
award-winning Museum of Scotland, the
National War Museum of Scotland and the
Museum of Scottish Country Life. He was
appointed Director of the V&A in 2001
and led a £120m programme of renewal
of the museum’s buildings and displays.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society
of Edinburgh and an honorary professor
at Edinburgh University, and holds
honorary degrees from Royal Holloway
College and Abertay University, Dundee.
He was knighted in 2010.